Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors
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- The author's experience as a waiter at Shoney's introduced them to the restaurant slang '86', meaning an item is out of stock.
- Wikipedia notes additional meanings for '86': refusing service to someone and, in some slang dictionaries, referring to murder.
- Former FBI director James Comey posted an Instagram image in 2025 showing shells arranged as '86 47', interpreted as a message about Trump, the 47th President.
- Trump has held a long-standing grudge against Comey, firing him in 2017 and his prosecutor daughter in 2025, and has sought to use federal power against him.
- Despite efforts, Trump's administration faced incompetence, leading to a dismissed Comey indictment in Virginia and the removal of an interim U.S. attorney.